a dozen bone-hunters have got together for one campaign only to
try to induce Tammany to give them a job or two, or in order to get
in with the reformers for the same purpose. You might think that it
would cost a lot of money to get up one of these organizations and
keep it goin' for even one campaign, but, Lord bless you! it costs
next to nothin'. Jimmy O'Brien brought the manufacture of
"Democracies" down to an exact science, and reduced the cost of
production so as to bring it within the reach of all. Any man with
$50 can now have a "Democracy" of his own.

I've looked into the industry, and can give rock-bottom figures.
Here's the items of cost of a new "Democracy

A dinner to twelve bone-hunters $12.00
A speech on Jeffersonian Democracy 00.00
A proclamation of principles (typewriting) 2.00
Rent of a small room one month for headquarters 12.00
Stationery 2.00
Twelve secondhand chairs 6.00
One secondhand table 2.00
Twenty-nine cuspidors 9.00
Sign painting 5.00
Total ------
$50.00

Is there any reason for wonder, then, that "Democracies" spring up
all over when a municipal campaign is comm' on? If you land even
one small job, you get a big return on your investment. You don't
have to pay for advertisin' in the papers. The New York papers
tumble over one another to give columns to any new organization